13. _Little Dorrit_--two Volumes, with memoranda, Dedication to Clarkson Stanfield, and Preface. 14. _A Tale of Two Cities_--with Dedication to Lord John Russell, and Preface. 15. _Edwin Drood_--unfinished, with memoranda, and headings for chapters. John Forster says:--"The last page of _Edwin Drood_ was written in the chalet in the afternoon of his last day of consciousness." Of the above-mentioned, the calligraphy of Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, is seen at a glance to be larger, bolder, and to have fewer corrections. In Nos. 5 to 15 it is smaller, and more confused by numerous alterations. According to Forster--"His greater pains and elaboration of writing became first very obvious in the later parts of _Martin Chuzzlewit_." The manuscripts of the earliest works of the Author, _Sketches by Boz_, _Pickwick_, _Nicholas Nickleby_, &c., were evidently not considered at the time worth preserving. The manuscript of _Our Mutual Friend_, given by Dickens to Mr. E. S. Dallas--in grateful acknowledgment of an appreciative review which (according to an article in _Scribner_, entitled "Our Mutual Friend in Manuscript") Mr. Dallas wrote of the novel for _The Times_, which largely increased the sale of the book, and fully established its success,--is in the library of Mr. G. W. Childs of Philadelphia; and that of _A Christmas Carol_--given by Dickens to his old friend and school-fellow, Tom Mitton--was for sale in Birmingham a few years ago, and might have been purchased for two hundred and fifty guineas! It is now owned by Mr. Stuart M. Samuel, and has since been beautifully reproduced in fac-simile, with an Introduction by my friend and fellow-tramp, Mr. F. G. Kitton. Mr. Wright, of Paris, is the fortunate possessor of _The Battle of Life_. The proof-sheets of _Great Expectations_ are in the Museum at Wisbech. Messrs. Jarvis and Son, of King William Street, Strand, sold some time since four of the MSS. of minor articles contributed by Dickens to _Household Words_ in 1855-6, viz. _The Friend of the Lions_, _Demeanour of Murderers_, _That other Public_, and _Our Commission_, for L10 each. At the sale of the late Mr. Wilkie Collins's manuscripts and library by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 18th June, 1890, the manuscript of _The Frozen Deep_, by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, 1856 (first performed at Tavistock House, 6th January, 1857), together with the narrative written for _Temple Bar_, 1874, and Prompt Book of the same play, was sold for L300. A poem written by Charles Dickens, as a Prologue to the same play, and _The Song of the Wreck_, also written by Charles Dickens, were sold for L11 11_s._ each. _The Perils of Certain English Prisoners_, a joint production of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, for the Christmas number of _Household Words_, 1857, realized L200; and the drama of _No Thoroughfare_ (imperfect), also a joint production, fetched L22.